If you're an ant, you can crawl from one side. ""Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat maps," Gott added. "To see all of the globe, you have to rotate it to see all of our new map, you simply have to flip it over. The new pancake map borrows data found from research on multi-sided 3D shapes called polyhedra. American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller created a polyhedral map in 1943 using outlines of geometric shapes that comprised a world map and could be folded to make a whole polyhedral globe, but it couldn't overcome distance errors for certain oceans and continents. "The map can be printed front-and-back on a single magazine page, ready for the reader to cut out." Richard Gott, an emeritus professor of astrophysics at Princeton University.
"This is a map you can hold in your hand," explained lead researcher J. Richard Gott, Robert Vanderbei and David Goldberg
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